Click here to view AERA 2021 Annual Meeting key dates and upcoming town halls and training sessions. These include orientation meetings on the preparation, facilitation, structure, and delivery of Annual Meeting sessions. We strongly recommend all presenters, chairs, discussants, and attendees participate in the town halls and trainings.

A first-of-its-kind analysis of parents’ reviews of U.S. public K–12 schools, posted primarily from 2009 to 2019 on the popular school information site GreatSchools.org, found that most reviews were written by parents at schools in affluent neighborhoods and provided information that correlated strongly with test scores, a measure that closely tracks race and family income. Learn more

AERA joins ASA, COPAFS, and other supporters of federal statistics in recommending specific actions to address immediate issues of data integrity and the decades-long challenges that have undercut the ability of the principal statistical agencies to carry out their missions to the fullest. Learn more

AERA Executive Director Felice J. Levine testified before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space, and Technology at a hearing titled “Building Back the U.S. Research Enterprise: COVID Impacts and Recovery” on Thursday, February 25. Read Levine's written testimony. 

AERA invites applications for the AERA Congressional Fellowship Program, which offers a valuable professional development opportunity by embedding high-quality education researchers in congressional offices. Application deadline: March 19. Learn more

Methodology, Data, and Research Opportunities
March 11, 2021, 9:30-11:30 am ET

AERA and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development will hold an interactive forum to discuss research opportunities and lessons learned from the Global Teaching InSights (GTI) Video Study. Learn more. Register here.

The AERA-ICPSR PEERS Data Hub will hold a free workshop on “Introduction to the Stanford Education Data Archive” on March 9, 12:30–2:30 pm ET. Learn more 

AERA, APA, and NCME announce that the current edition of Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing is now available open access as a free download in English and Spanish. Readers have the option of downloading the book as a pdf, a pdf eBook, and an ePub eBook. Read mor

AERA and the Spencer Foundation have released a joint report, Voices from the Field: The Impact of COVID-19 on Early Career Scholars and Doctoral Students, that shares findings and recommendations from focus groups conducted in spring 2020. Learn more

After the COVID-19 crisis hit last March, federal student aid applications among potential college freshmen in California dropped 14 percent between mid-March and mid-August, relative to prior years. Read more